After months of discussions, plans for the 62-acre mixed-use Bella Prosper development are on hold again. 

What happened: Prosper Town Council tabled until May a zoning request tied to the development at a Feb. 24 meeting, citing ongoing concerns about adding multifamily housing outside the town’s tollway district.   

Some context: Developers are seeking to rezone the 61.7-acre property at First Street and Legacy Drive from its agriculture designation to allow a mixed-use development. Valued at roughly $302 million, Bella Prosper aims to create a walkable community with residential, commercial and recreational components, town documents state.

Looking ahead: The zoning change is set to go back before Town Council at its May 19 meeting.

Total Wine is opening its new Prosper location March 5, according to a company news release. 

Zooming in: The new 26,000-square-foot store at the Gates of Prosper will feature tasting stations and an in-store classroom for customer classes and events, according to the release. Total Wine and More offers wines, spirits, beers, hard seltzers and more.

• 1191 Gates Parkway, Ste. 400, Prosper

The Texas Education Agency must correct roughly 4,200 errors in its elementary and middle school curriculum, the State Board of Education ruled Feb. 25.

The overview: The changes to the Bluebonnet Learning materials, a set of state-developed textbooks, include replacing improperly licensed images, fixing formatting errors or typos and correcting factual errors.

The SBOE approved the Bluebonnet materials in November 2024. The curriculum, which became available to districts ahead of the 2025-26 school year, has been criticized for frequent biblical references in the reading materials, although proponents said the materials would help improve student outcomes.

Zooming in: Before approving the changes, several board members expressed concerns about the “unprecedented” number of issues with the state-developed textbooks, noting that Texas taxpayers will cover the costs of reprinting the updated materials, as they were developed with state funds.

“I’m very concerned that, as a board, we have set a precedent for sloppy publishing. Many times, even if it's a typo, it could become an error of fact,” SBOE member Pam Little, R-Fairview, said.